Well, I've send an email off to IBM. We shall see. I've found that pdftotext on my Linux system will extract the text. I'll may see if I can use this to make a LaTex document which I will then reformat into an epub for personal use only. Wish I could then share that, but I regard that as a violation of Copyright and don't want the IBM lawyers after me <grin/>.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Skip Robinson <jo.skip.robin...@sce.com>wrote: > During the Test under Mask thread I was moved to consult this bible for > the first time in ages. Dual column format is a major PITA. Took me twice > as long to chase the bouncing ball. Totally unwarranted in the age of > online browsing. > > . > . > JO.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 626-302-7535 Office > 323-715-0595 Mobile > jo.skip.robin...@sce.com > > > > From: Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, > Date: 06/27/2013 09:53 AM > Subject: Re: Reader Comment on SA22-7832-08 (PoPS), should I? > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> > > > > On 27 June 2013 11:48, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Would it be worth while to tell IBM that the document would be much more > > readable if it were like the other manuals; having only one column of > text, > > except perhaps for tables? > > I have had nothing but good results from my RCFs to the PrOps over the > years. Those have all been regarding technical matters rather than > formatting, but by all means do send in your comments. I'm sure they > will be quite receptive. > > > I wonder if it would be worth my while to try to > > OCR the PDF to create something that I could import into a true DTP > program > > (and I'm not talking MS Word! Perhaps LaTex). > > OCRing shouldn't be necessary. The PDF contains the text already (as > evidenced by the correct working of the "find" function) and should be > editable in any PDF editor. There are no security flags set that would > prevent this, but I don't know what the copyright implications of > doing so might be. This is almost certainly not the right forum to get > into (yet another, usually ill-informed) discussion of the copyright > laws. > > Tony H. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
